Editing Web portal (section)

==History==
The term "portal" emerged in the late 1990s to describe a new genre of website. After the proliferation of [[Web browser]]s in the late-1990s, many companies tried to build or acquire a portal to attempt to obtain a share of an Internet market. The Web portal gained special attention because it was, for many users, the starting point of their [[Web browser|Web browsing]] if it was set as their [[home page]]. The content and branding of a portal could change as Internet companies merged or were acquired. [[Netscape]] became a part of [[America Online]], the [[Walt Disney Company]] launched [[Go.com]]. Portal [[Metaphor|metaphors]] are widely used by public library sites for borrowers using a login as users and by university intranets for students and for faculty. Vertical markets remain for independent software vendors ([[Independent software vendor|ISV]]s) offering management and executive intranet "dashboards" for corporations and government agencies in areas such as [[governance, risk management, and compliance]]